Nichirei Biosciences Inc.

Nichirei Corporation

Takashi Kitoh

Hirokazu Ohbayashi

Yuriko Kitano

Hidenori Kawai

Hirohisa Matsushita

The present invention is an analytical device which comprises a porous piece assembly consisting of a liquid reagent-receiving porous piece (), a labeled substance-retaining piece (), a test piece () comprising a detection site () and a reference site (), and a sample-absorbing porous material piece (); and a sample-receiving porous material piece () disposed independently therefrom and partially communicated therewith through a connection. The analytical device of the present invention exhibits extremely high sensitivity and can accurately perform various types of analysis.

Analyzing device

The present invention relates to an enzyme-antibody complex where one or more molecule(s) of enzyme into which a maleimide group or a thiol group is introduced is/are covalently conjugated to a carrier (polylysine, aminodextyan and so forth) in which a thiol group when a maleimide group is introduced into the enzyme or to a maleimide group when a thiol group is introduced into the enzyme via them, and a maleimide group is introduced into at least one amino group remaining in the above complex and is covalently conjugated to a maleimide group of the above complex via a thiol group obtained by reduction of antibody fragment or antibody. The resulting complex is useful as an enzyme-labeled antibody particularly in immunohistochemistry and in enzyme immunoassay and makes an immunoassay with high sensitivity possible.

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Saitama-ken, Japan

Takashi Kitoh